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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!

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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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